No. That info is only listed inside their profile. All the info I scrape is from the search results. But their linkedin profile URL along with name , skills etc will be included in a excel spreadsheet.

Doing it yourself is not at all the best way to get things done @ schwagoo... A smart way of doing business is hiring the best people for the job and focusing on what you're good at. You think the CEO of Coca Cola programs their website, lmao

A good manager knows how to delegate and utilize time efficiently, not waste 6 months of money making time to learn how to code.

A friend of mine and myself did a similar project, but instead of wasting months worth of time, we got the bots required programmed in a couple days (for a couple hundred bucks) and within a few days mined hundreds of thousands of linked in member data and had it compiled for us nicely in a CSV separated, filtered, and mailed. Practically on auto pilot and churned out thousands in profits (we didn't mail the whole list, so plenty more cash left to make too).

A smart business man realizes how to maximize revenue potential, in the least amount of time without impairing potential earnings to a significant degree.

Example 2: Pretty sure Bill Gates hasn't been working on Microsoft products since the days of MS-DOS, lol

Hey guys. Ive been working hard on building my scrapper. I am able to scrape linkedin profiles. Previously I was looking for someone to do this for me but I said eff it, I will make my own and I did.

name
location
previous experience
current work
linkedin profile URL

great for recruiters. Does anyone have any use for this here?

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hi CosmicSoundz and all other readers on this thread,

i'd certainly have use for such a scraper, let me know what the next step is ..

Anyway, a bit of about me and what im ultimately after:

i'd be keen in engaging someone who can scrape data from linkedin. Namely, from LinkedIn's search results page, which only gives you 10 contacts per page. I need approximately 5,000 of them, so thats 500 pages one would have to go through manually.

I am a recruiter, specializing in accounting & finance. I have database of 2,000 accounting contacts (Australia) and it mainly consists of:

75% of my database is up to date, so 1,500 contacts are still at the same company. That means that 500 or so contacts have either left company, or changed positions within the company, or company has been liquidated, sold, bought out etc.

I wanted to be able to clean up my existing database using LinkedIn but the clear limitation is the 10 results per page. Which wouldnt be huge problem if the search results amounted to 70, leaving me only 7 pages to trawl through. However, my search generates a set of results in the order of 18,523, based on the below search criteria.

COUNTRY - AustraliaTITLE - "Financial Controller" OR "Finance Director" OR "CFO" OR "Finance Manager" OR "Financial Accountant"CURRENT & OR PAST - Current

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18,523 equates to 1,853 pages. Even going through only a tenth of that would render the exercise commercially not viable.

If you were able to get 100+ results per page (ie. like an ebay), then the task would not be so laborious.

If I was to undertake such a process with search results of say 120+ contacts (12 pages), then the steps I'd take would be as follows:

1. Shrink screen to say 50% (so that i can see all 10 results. With this view, I can also select the next page without having to scroll down or up)2. CTRL "F", search for the word "More", which will then be highlighted in yellow thus making it easier to identify.3. Click the first instance of "More" in contact. In 90% of cases, the first "More" will relate to the contacts "current" job.4. After having now expanded each of the 10 contacts' current job, I will then hit CTRL "A" (Select All)5. Then CTRL "C"6. CTRL "V" into an Excel spreadsheet (but before it goes into excel, i'll dump it into "Notepad" so that it loses its formatting, resulting in a cleaner dump into excel.7. I then play around with that data in such a way that i'm able to get what i need, efficiently. I then do a v-lookup with the data I already have (my database). I am all set from here onwards.

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I'd be very keen to see if you could help me out on this and what the process would involve

btw, I have a premium account (business plus), which i'd be more than happy for you to jump into if you wanted to have a peak around.

You cannot scrape e-mails from LinkedIn profiles, except for the people you are connected to (in which case LinkedIn has a convenient feature that lets you download all the e-mails in a CSV file). However, you can send LinkedIn messages directly to people you want to reach. I do this a lot. However, recently LinkedIn has been getting stricter in suspending accounts that send unsolicited e-mails and I haven't figured out the limits of their new algorithms yet. I would love to share insights about the ins-and-outs of sending messages on LinkedIn if anyone wants to PM me.

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